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Lunch and Learn: A Conversation with Historian Dr. Philip J. Deloria

Co-presented with the Prince George's County Office of Human Rights

2025-04-08 12:00:00 2025-04-08 13:00:00 America/New_York Lunch and Learn: A Conversation with Historian Dr. Philip J. Deloria This spring, grab your favorite lunch at noon and tune in to virtual conversations with the Prince George’s County Office of Human Rights and the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System on topics from repairing the effects of racial injustice to fighting for equitable access to recovering from exile and loss. Let’s learn together! Virtual Branch -

Tuesday, April 08
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-04-08 12:00:00 2025-04-08 13:00:00 America/New_York Lunch and Learn: A Conversation with Historian Dr. Philip J. Deloria This spring, grab your favorite lunch at noon and tune in to virtual conversations with the Prince George’s County Office of Human Rights and the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System on topics from repairing the effects of racial injustice to fighting for equitable access to recovering from exile and loss. Let’s learn together! Virtual Branch -

This spring, grab your favorite lunch at noon and tune in to virtual conversations with the Prince George’s County Office of Human Rights and the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System on topics from repairing the effects of racial injustice to fighting for equitable access to recovering from exile and loss. Let’s learn together!

Lunch and Learn returns with special guest Dr. Philip J. Deloria in conversation with the Prince George's County Office of Human Rights and the Prince George's County Memorial Library System about indigeneity, art, history, representation, and their intersections.

Registration not required. Click on the YouTube video linked below to stream the program live or watch the recording later.

About Dr. Philip J. Deloria

Philip J. Deloria (Dakota descent) is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, where his research and teaching focus on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States.  He is the author of several books, including Playing Indian (Yale University Press, 1998), Indians in Unexpected Places (University Press of Kansas, 2004), American Studies: A User’s Guide (University of California Press, 2017), with Alexander Olson, and Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract (University of Washington Press, 2019), as well as two co-edited books and numerous articles and chapters.  Deloria received the Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1994, taught at the University of Colorado, and then, from 2001 to 2017, at the University of Michigan, before joining the faculty at Harvard in January 2018.  Deloria was a long-serving trustee of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian.  He is former president of the American Studies Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the Society for American History, an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of numerous prizes and recognitions.

Philip J. Deloria in the PGCMLS collection: 

Introduction of "Black Elk Speaks" by John G. Neihardt, which you can find here.

Chapter "Somewhere, USA" in "After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America," edited by Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt, Yohuru Williams, which can be found here

Chapter "The Discovery of Irony" in "My Life: Growing Up Native in America," edited by IllumiNative, which can be found here.

Chapter "Suffering and Sorrow" in "The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream," edited by David M. Rubenstein, which can be found here.

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